Clinical Influenza Testing Practices in Hospitalized Children at United States Medical Centers, 2015-2018
AUTHORS
Tenforde
MW ,
Campbell
AP ,
Michaels
MG ,
Harrison
CJ ,
Klein
EJ ,
Englund
JA ,
Selvarangan
R ,
Halasa
NB ,
Stewart
LS ,
Weinberg
GA ,
Williams
JV ,
Szilagyi
PG ,
Staat
MA ,
Boom
JA ,
Sahni
LC ,
Singer
MN ,
Azimi
PH ,
Zimmerman
RK ,
McNeal
MM ,
Talbot
HK ,
Monto
AS ,
Martin
ET ,
Gaglani
M ,
Silveira
FP ,
Middleton
DB ,
Ferdinands
JM ,
Rolfes
MA ,
. Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. 2021 10 13; ().
- PMID: 34643241 [PubMed].
ABSTRACT
At nine US hospitals that enrolled children hospitalized with acute respiratory illness (ARI) during 2015-2016 through 2017-2018 influenza seasons, 50% of children with ARI received clinician-initiated testing for influenza and 35% of cases went undiagnosed due to lack of clinician-initiated testing. Marked heterogeneity in testing practice was observed across sites.
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